Our Manifesto

Unlike
other political parties, we're not going to tell you what's most
important to you in a top-down manifesto. Instead, we're setting up a social network
that anyone can join to discuss the community-led solutions that
inspire you, and how they could be supported by national level policy.
In the meantime though, here's some of the best ideas we've seen being
suggested by the other parties, and some of our own that no one else is
talking about yet:

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Policies

(Lib Dem, Green)
At the moment, 70% of your money immediately leaves the local area and
goes into a central pot controlled by the government. Not only is that
the real cause of a lot of the bureaucratic waste the Tories keep going
on about, it also limits great initiatives like participatory budgeting
because they're only ever dealing with less than a third of the money
being raised. A local tax would turn this round: 70% stays local while
30% goes on national level programs and gets redistributed to counter
inequality. It will provide better value for money, and can lead to
more transparency and accountability in spending decisions.

(The Commons)
Replacing Trident could cost us £76bn. Some people believe that Trident
is essential to keep us safe in an uncertain world; others think that
this is an unnecessary expense, especially now that cuts in public
services are inevitable. There's two sides to the story, but it's our
money, and we should be making this decision. Referendums are expensive
(though so are nuclear warheads) and to cut down on costs we will
crowdsource arguments for and against the policy using online software
such as Debatepedia.

(UKIP)
Launch an independent commission into drugs policy and consider all its
recomendations including decriminalisation. Drugs are a really divisive
issue, and we're certainly not saying that decriminalisation is the
answer. But two things are becoming increasingly clear: we are losing
the war on drugs which means rethinking our whole approach, and we need
to base our decisions on scientific, unpoliticised evidence..

(The Commons)
Launch a national, holistic debate our energy future. The biggest
political scandals are the ones where politicians lie and then lie to
cover up their lies. Hiding things reinforces the idea that only a
small elite can handle the truth. Give us some credit! The Commons
believe that decisions made behind closed doors seriously undermine democracy, and that information needs to be easily accessible and open to scrutiny by everyone.

(Conservatives)
The Conservatives want to establish a program called Work Together,
which will connect people with volunteering opportunities in their
area. We think this is a great idea, so long as they don't use this as
an excuse to wash their hands of responsibility for vulnerable people.
Also, they might want to check out V-inspired, Groups Near You, BTCV... maybe they don't need to reinvent the wheel!

(Labour, Lib Dem, Green)
If we'd had proportional representation in 2005, we would currently
have around 80 more Lib Dem MPs, 14 UKIP MPs and 6 or 7 Greens in
Parliament – and that's under our current system, where people knew
most of their votes cast for these parties would be wasted. Yes,
proportional representation would also have allowed the BNP into
Parliament, but surely that's where they should be – being argued with
in reasoned debate, rather than spreading lies in private? And is
keeping the BNP out of Parliament really worth having a system that can
create a majority government that 78% of the country didn't vote for?

(The Commons)
A lot of the most exciting developments on the Web have to potential to transform democracy. Simple innovations like Ideascale which allows users to generate and rate content) have already found political uses in America with Ask the Speaker; peer-to-patent
involved ordinary people helping to assess US patent applications; in
New Zealand suggestions for reforms to the Police Act were collected
using a wiki. Over the next four weeks we'll be trying out some of these ideas in Hampstead and Kilburn. Watch this space...